Self-sealing pocket



H. MEYER SELF SEALING POCKET Filed April 1, 1922 TIE. 1 30 INVENTOR. He/v'e r /7 Y ATTORNEYS.

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SELF-SEALING POCKET.

Application filed. April 1, 1922. Serial No. 548,759.

To aZZ whom it may concern Be known that I, HENRY Marne, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Anderson, county of li fadison, and State of Indiana, have invented a certain new and useful Self-Sealing Pocket; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like numerals refer to like parts.

This invention relates to a self sealing pocket for garments and the like and particularly for trouser pockets.

The chief object of this invention is to i provide suitable means for sealing a garment pocket which will permit the forcible opening of and permit entrance to the pocket, and removal from the pocket, but will prevent the surreptitious and accidental opening of the pocket.

The chief feature of the invention consists in the provision of self sealing means for a garment pocket which generically includes a tongue and a receiving groove therefor.

The full nature of this invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claims.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of a portion of a garment showing the pocket in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In the drawings 10 indicates a portion of the garment goods or fabric, while 11 indicates another portion thereof which are secured together at the seam 12. The pocket may be of the usual form and comprised of two sides 13 and 14 which are secured to gether at their forward edges 15 by single or plural stitching, as shown. The pocket is indicated in Fig. 1 by the numeral 16 and herein said pocket is shown elongated and the length of the pocket is substantially twice the length of the opening or entrance to the pocket. The pocket is not only extended downwardly from the opening in the usual manner, but herein is illustrated at 17 as extending upwardly therefrom to form a well or receiving portion when the garment is inverted. This, however, is a minor feature of the invention and is included to form a universal retaining pocket and cooperate with the self sealing feature when in inverted position.

The outer fabric 10 is turned inwardly at 18 and between said inturned portion 18 and the outer portion is positioned the other end of the pocket forming side 1. 1. Also positioned adjacent the inturned portion 18 is an inturned portion 19 of a facing strip 20.

Between the inturned portion 18 and the facing strip 20* there is secured a groove forming flap 21 which forms the groove 22. The inner end of the facing strip 20 is secured to the pocket side 14 in the usual manner. Likewise the inturned ends 18 and 19 of the fabric 10 and the facing 20 are secured together in the usual manner. Both of the aforesaid stitchings indicated respectively by the numerals 23 and 24 simultaneously secure the groove forming strip 22 to one of the pocket forming sides 14. The groove forming strip 22 preferably terminates in a turned edge 25 to finish the same.

The other end of the pocket forming side 13 which is not secured to the pocket forming side 14 is secured by the sewing 26 to the side 11 in the usual manner. The stitching 26 simultaneously secures one end of a tongue forming member 27. A similar facing strip 28 is secured to the outside fabric 11 in the usual manner at and by the seam 12. The inside of the facing strip 28 is secured to the pocket side 13 as has heretofore been the practice, and the other end of said facing strip 28 is secured to the other end of the tongue forming strip 27 as at 29, thereby forming a tongue portion 29 which is receivable by the groove portion 22 of the self sealing means. It will be understood that all the foregoing members adjacent the aperture closed by the tongue and groove seating means are secured together at the top and at the bottom of the aperture by transverse stitching, see Fig. 1, as at 30 and 31.

It will be noted that in order to gain access to the pocket the middle portion of the tongue construction must be removed from the middle portion of the groove construe tion which is permitted by forcible movement of the same. The foregoing means,

however, is adapted to prevent surreptitious opening of the pocket from without, although it permits the forcible opening of the pocket as previously described. The tongue and groove construction effectually seals the pocket from accidental opening thereof, and if the garment is tilted such that the pocket opens downwardly instead of upwardly or sidewardly, the articles contained within the pocket will seat themselves between the tongue forming member or the groove forming member and the pocket side adjacent the opening, thereby being retained Within the pocket Where normally said articles would be discharged from the pocket.

It Will be'noted from the foregoing that the additional elements included in the self sealing construction overthe usual pocket construction heretofore employed is the groove forming member 22 and the tongue forming member 27; By the tongue forming member 27 1s also meant the construc tion Where the facing member 28 Would not 15 be reenforced by the member 27 but would be freea't the end 29, but which heretofore has been secured to the side 13.

The invention claimed is: a

A self-sealing pocket including a tongue secured to one side of the pocket and extending therein, and a groove-forming por tion having one of its ends secured to that side .of the pocket opposite the tongue and.

having its other end unsecured and extending between the tongue and the first-mentioned side of the pocket.

Inxvitness whereof, I have hereunto afiixed I my signature.

HENRY MEYER. 

